Beschreibung:

366 pp. Double frontispiece (including portrait), plus numerous wood engravings throughout. (8vo) 21.5x16.3 cm (8½x6½"), original decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. First American Edition. First edition of the quintessential classic of 19th century American literature. The present copy exhibits the following issue points: title leaf with copyright notice dated 1884 (third state, but the first state was only seen in a prospectus and set of advance sheets); the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed as p.88 (first state); 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the was." (first state); p. 283 has corrected engraving (fourth state), the final 5 in the enumeration of page 155 is in lacking (first state); leaf 23-8 is present as a blank, second state of the frontispiece portrait (imprint of Heliotype with no visible tablecloth). BAL 3415. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown, gift inscription dated 1885 on front blank leaf.